Each time Christmas comes around, divorced parents must decide what to do about their children spending time with their mother and father.
Writing for Mail Online, television chef Tamasin Day-Lewis described how she and her ex-husband opted to retain a sense of continuity after they split by carrying on spending Christmas together - despite their altered marital status.
However after years of celebrating the day together, this will be the first Christmas that they will do so apart, after her three children decided that they would prefer to see their parents separately.Ms Day-Lewis, the sister of actor Daniel Day-Lewis, said: "I have always prided myself that we were - are - still a family despite our divorce about seven years ago, so I have carried on with all our family traditions, the stockings, and my ex-husband at the Christmas, Boxing Day-a-few-days-beyond lunch table."
Parents using divorce solicitors to formalise their separation can have a real impact on their children and part of this comes down to the way young people must "juggle" their responsibilities, according to Johanna Thomas-Corr on LondonEveningStandard.co.uk.
She explained that divorce has played a major role in her family life, with her parents, step-parents and grandparents all splitting up over the course of her life, leading to fractured Christmases.
